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The bibliography provides information on writings dealing with the history of rape, including sexual child abuse, sexual harassment, sexual molestation, child prostitution, forced prostitution, sexual slavery, sexual(ized) violence. The blog informs about calls for papers, forthcoming events and new literature in this field.

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McGregor, Katharine. »Emotions and activism for former so-called “comfort women” of the Japanese Occupation of the Netherlands East Indies.« Women's Studies International Forum 54 (2016): 67-78.

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Snell, Esther. »Trials in Print: Narratives of Rape Trials in the Proceedings of the Old Bailey.« Crime, Courtrooms, and the Public Sphere in Britain, 1700-1850. Edited by David Lemmings. Fanham 2012.

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Tunamsifu, Shirambere P. »The right to justice: A challenge for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.« 24th World Congress of Political Science. Poznań 2016.

Speaker: Shirambere Philippe Tunamsifu
Title: The right to justice
Subtitle: A challenge for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
Conference: 24th World Congress of Political Science (July 23-28, 2016)
Place: Poznań, Poland
Date: July 2016
Language: English
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Book: Domestic Violence in 18th-Century Literature & Law
Editor: Judith Broome
Submission deadline for abstracts:April 15, 2016Description: »Seeking essays for an edited collection examining the representation of domestic or intimate violence in literature and/or law in the long 18th century. Before the term "domestic violence" was coined, there were behaviors, ways of speaking, issues of control, legal categories, economic conditions, and occupational relationships that bordered on violence. The essays I seek will consider early ways of representing, thinking, and talking about physical, emotional, or sexual violence within a domestic or family setting.«
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Title: Sexual offences, legal responses and public perceptions: 1880s - 1980s
Researchers: Lisa Featherstone, Amanda Kaladelfos, Carolyn Strange, Nina Westera
Funded by: Australian Research Council
Term: 2015-2018
Abstract: »Testimony of sexual abuse before the current Royal Commission has exposed the historic neglect and coverup of institutional offences. Yet, to unearth the deeper and wider dimensions of sexual offending requires scholarly historical analysis. This project uses qualitative and quantitative analysis to track how and why certain forms of sexual behaviour sparked public concern and provoked legal responses and public inquiries from the 1880s to the 1980s. Our systematic examination of these patterns through archival and published documents will test the relation between shifting community and political concerns and the conduct of criminal trials. Thus, it will make a significant contribution to the promotion of health and wellbeing.«
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Book: Daily Life of Women in World History
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Deadline for application:unknownDescription: »ABC-CLIO is seeking someone to prepare a 4-volume reference work on Daily Life of Women in World History. The book would include chronologically arranged sections on roughly 30 different societies from the ancient world to the present. Each section on a society would include subsections on categories related to daily life, with reference entries in each subsection discussing particular topics related to the daily life of women. The editor of the project would be responsible for mapping out the work in detail, soliciting and coordinating contributors, and reviewing and revising material.«
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